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This is a list of notable Scottish Americans, including both immigrants who obtained U.S. citizenship and their American descendants.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Scottish American or must have references showing they are Scottish American and are notable.
Pages in category "American people of Scottish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,398 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans , descendants of Ulster Scots , and communities emphasize and celebrate a common heritage. [ 8 ]
Scotch-Irish Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with their ancestors being originally migrated to Ulster, mainly from the Scottish Lowlands in the 17th century.
This is a list of notable Scots-Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The Scots-Irish trace their ancestry to Lowland Scottish and Northern English people, but through having stayed a few generations in Ulster. This list is ordered by surname within section. To be ...
Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank". Burgh, alternatively spelled Burg, means "city" or "town".
What Scotland isn't known for is inspiring a lot of baby names in the United States. That could be changing, though, as an increasing number of American parents search for new and different baby ...
Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among the majority of mixed ancestry, [39] and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scots-Irish Protestants settled in North ...